Sarah and Steph

Sarah and her quilt.  I think this is for their bed.  Nice use of the rail fence pattern and this version I think is called basketweave

Steph made an owl lots of those little feathers - can't remember how many she said.  Here she is showing us roughly how it will look when finished.  She got the pattern off the 'net I believe.  Steph is good at intricacies; I fear I would have lost patience!

Rosemary's babies

Baby Quilt

..and the back

New baby quilt

Cot Bumper

All lovely.  Lucky babies!

Linda's quilts

Well I thought Blogger was getting too good to be true, or maybe I wasn't careful enough.  Anyway, this is Linda's striking quilt made, I think, for her daughter who regularly requests quilts and the two pics above that are of course the front and the back so you can see the beautiful hand quilting.

I forget who she is making this one for. The day I saw it I was surprised because I had been thinking that we hadn't made any stars and then here they are!  I believe Linda was using up odd bits and pieces and I cannot think of a nicer way to do it. Linda is on the left and Norma helping on the right

Janet's quilt

Janet bought this quilt kit from White Cottage Country Crafts.  It is the same pattern as members of the Breakaways were given on one of our anniversaries, though sadly most of us have yet to make it.  Earlier in the blog you will see Jane's version of the same.  Janet wanted hers bigger and has added borders.  She is hand quilting this one. 

 

 

 http://www.whitecottagecountrycrafts.co.uk/  If you click on Patterns you will see this one - Country Medallion.  We saw a display of several versions at Malvern Quilt Show one year - they all looked so differentand yet the pattern is not complicated if you look at it; it just seems that way.

Jane's Spanish Quilt

Jane went to Spain - lucky woman - and she found, surprise, surprise, a fabric shop.  Not necessarily quilting fabric, but some she thought she could use.  This quilt is her reminder of a lovely holiday.  The roundels are fussy-cut, which simply means that she has carefully cut round them leaving enough fabric round the edge for her to turn under to sew (applique/apply) down.  It's a very striking quilt and destined for their bed. Hand quilted.

Chris's Dresden Plates

Dresden Plates by Chris.  She has finished it now, I think, but was just doing the binding when I took this pic.  Chris made this using the quilt as you go technique; I think she has decided to make all her big quilts this way as each block is quilted on the way and when they are all put together, the quilt is more or less done.  The thin blue strips inbetween the floral borders are the connecting strips.  It is a clever technique and when done badly a quilt can be quite stiff but Chris is a master at this and the quilt drapes beautifully and looks fabulous.

History of the Dresden Plate Quilt Block is here http://www.patternsfromhistory.com/colonial_revival/dresden-plate.htm

If you visit you tube you will find many different video tutorials for making and joining quilt as you go blocks - there is more than one way to skin a cat!